Category: Bookish Love

We all know of these characters, the ones that barely encounter any obstacles during their journey while winning the hearts of all their potential love interests. I could name several extremely popular books that are focused on a Mary Sue or John Doe. Unfortunately it is also extremely easy to accidentally write your main characters as a Mary Sue, especially if you are in the writing groove and really cranking out that novel. Have no fear, I am here to help guide you along your literary journey and help keep you from straying off the path of a well-developed character and being sucked into the land of absolutely perfect characters that can do no wrong.
Before I can help you I must give you a in-depth guide to the mysterious Mary Sue. The Mary Sue/ John Doe character is one that can probably climb Mt. Everest on their first try with little to no issues. These characters learn fighting quickly and can do things that a normal character would not be able to do as accurately . They are also known for having no enemies, there have even been some instances where even the villain falls for them. This leads to the story becoming dull rather quickly because the main character is completely unrealistic. I know you love your characters and you want what is best for them but they need to be realistic. A reader needs a character to relate to not a character that shoot rainbows of friendship from their fingertips while gliding to the finish line.
What are some ways that I can avoid this from happening? I am glad you asked!

Here are 3 Ways to Make Sure Your Character is Not A Mary Sue:

1. When you are developing your characters for your novel you need to create a list. For the protagonists list 3 positive traits and 1 negative trait to help balance them out.

Ex. My Protagonist:

Optimistic

Intelligent

Adventurous

Anxious

Now when you are creating your balanced antagonist you need to also create a list but this time it needs to be 3 negative traits and 1 positive trait.

Ex. My Antagonist:

Manipulative

Cold

Sadistic

Intelligent

By creating these lists you are getting to know your characters and allowing them to become more dynamic and realistic.

2. Create a realistic back story. As much as you want your character to come from a perfect home and perfect life with amazing friends and no issues pre-novel you need to understand that a back story like that is boring. No one has a perfect life and in order for you character to evolve over the course of your novel you need to give them some form of obstacle or issue in their back story that needs to be addressed during the events of the novel.

Ex. My main character has to overcome her anxiety she gained after a frightening near death experience before the events of the novel. She learns to accept her faults and how to be a stronger person so her anxiety can no longer define her.

Having something like this allows the character to be more relatable to the reader and it is a lot more enjoyable to write these characters and really watch them grow.
3. Make sure they fail. Yes, you read that right. Failure is a part of life and so it is important that failure is present at some point during your character’s story. You can make it something as minor as losing her car keys or something as major as running from the monster instead of facing them.

Ex. My character has problems mastering her bow and ends up missing a major target during the first altercation, this causes her to have a full-blown anxiety attack.

When you are writing about failure you are allowing the hero to travel along a journey where they can evolve and face their failures head on.

Creating characters for your novel may seem like an easy process but it is important to remember to make them human while you are actually writing your novel. It is easy to get swept away and dive into your story but you need to remember that a realistic and relatable character is one that a reader will love more and it will also allow you to grow along with your character as you write their journey to adventure, success, and freedom.

February has arrived and I am determined to make a dent in my book mountain that has taken over my office. I have decided to also create a unique reading challenge as well so, you can say I have some ambitious reading goals! As I conquer my list I will be posting all of the book reviews on my lovely little blog so y’all can follow me while I embark on this literary journey! With that out of the way lets see my Curious Reads for February!

I just started a nifty reading challenge that is mentioned a lot in this post! Click here to learn more!

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The first book on my list is for the challenge I am beginning! I plan on conquering this world book challenge where you read books set in various countries. This first country on this list is Afghanistan and the book I have chosen to read is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini!

I read his other book, The Kite Runner, a few years back and really enjoyed it so I decided to pick this lovely novel up!

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

Misery by Stephen King

The next book on my list is one that I started to read at the end of January but I hope to finish it during February and it is Misery by Stephen King.

I became obsessed with this author after reading The Shining and IT so it is no surprise that I want to scare myself and read Misery. Fun Fact: I have never seen the movie! I can’t wait to finish reading this book and see how everything unfolds!

Paul Sheldon. He’s a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader – she is Paul’s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

Dubliners by James Joyce

The third book I plan on reading this month is Dubliners by James Joyce. This book is not counting towards my Adventurous Reading challenge. I wanted to read this novel before I head to Ireland next month.

James Joyce is a well-known Irish writer and I heard this book is a must read before you visit Dublin! It is a compilation of short stories and will be a quick read.

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemism, reveals to the Irish their unromantic reality. Each of the 15 stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Another book I plan on reading, or in this case listening , is The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. I knew I had to read this book the moment I heard about it. The whole novel sounds like a realistic magical journey that will probably make me cry by the end. I chose this book as my monthly selection on Audible so I can wait to binge listen to this novel. For some reason I find listening to audio books to be extremely relaxing. I can honestly say that I accomplish more while I am listening to some awesome audio books.

It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.

Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in ’80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

A Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

A Company of Liars by Karen Maitland. I am reading this lovely book in eBook format because I bought it on sale via iBooks. This book has a similar plot format as The Canterbury Tales, nine strangers have been brought together and they each have their own unique tale to share during the age of the plague. I have been wanting to read this book for a while and I can’t wait to finally get to it!

The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.
Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group’s leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all–propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Adren

This is another book that is from my Adventurous Reading Challenge! I am happy that more books focused on Russian folklore are being published and I have been dying to read The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden.

At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind–she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.

After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed–this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Sample

A hermit that disappears and travels to Antarctica? That sounds like an interesting tale to me! Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Sample is also on the reading challenge’s list, that means that I am already crossing off three books from my adventurous reading challenge this month!

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette’s intensifying allergy to Seattle – and people in general – has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.

To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence – creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire is the fourth book I plan on reading for my adventurous challenge is set in Holland/ the Netherlands! This dark Cinderella tale is one that I have heard about from one of my friends and I have been wanting to pick it up! Now that I have a copy, I can finally read this book and cross another country off my challenge’s list!

We have all heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty … and what curses accompanied Cinderella’s looks?

Set against the backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris’s path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household — and the treacherous truth of her former life.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

The final book I chose for my Curious Reads for February is The Wonder by Emma Donoghue! This book is set in Ireland and is also listed in my reading challenge! I have been curious about this book for a while and I have finally decided to pick this little gem up and read it!

In the latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child’s life.

Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.

Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, THE WONDER works beautifully on many levels–a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.

If you are also interested in picking this novel up, here is its Amazon page

That concludes my list of Curious Reads for the month of February! As always, there will be books that will be read along with the ones present on this list. I will keep you updated with reviews throughout the month as well, so keep an eye out for that! If you are interested in my little Adventurous Reading Challenge click here!

Welcome to the first book review to be posted on my lovely blog! I hope you enjoy it and if you want to learn more about the book click here and it will take you to its Goodreads Page!

I recently developed an obsession with listening to podcasts, so I decided to finally listen to an audiobook and chose to listen to The Shining by Stephen King! It took me a little over fifteen hours to listen to this novel and it was worth every second. I loved Wendy and her resolve as she faced a husband that had a rapidly deteriorating mental state and a son that was being attacked by the undead residents of the Overlook hotel. Jack is such a wonderfully complex character and watching him unravel while learning bits of his background makes you want to listen to the whole novel in one setting. I am not going to lie, my favorite character was Hallorann, the cook that comes to the rescue. His wit and bravery really added an awesome level to this complex novel and helped sprinkle some humor into this thriller.

Stephen King really does have quite the talent for crafting beautifully deep characters that you want to root for. Even though I knew what was going to happen to poor Jack, I couldn’t help but hope that he can overcome the hotel’s hold and escape with his family. Watching Danny face the monsters that lurked the shadows of the Overlook while trying to learn how to control his shine without the help of his companion, Tony, was horrifying and intriguing at the same time. Even the monsters and demons that live in the hotel were all extremely detailed, from the old caretaker to the mobsters that resided in the presidential suite, monsters from different eras were present and ready to tear Danny apart for his gift and it was amazing to see all the work that went into creating this colorful cast of characters.

The plot was full of twists and turns while also not being too complex. The way that King sprinkles in flashbacks really did help paint a beautiful picture while making me want to read on to figure out why the characters were acting a certain way. Overall, this novel is absolutely fantastic and I am going to pick up Doctor Sleep so I can follow Danny on another amazing adventure.

Below I will list my top three favorite things about this novel and three things I thought could be better along with my rating of this novel!

That is all for my very first book review! I kept it as spoiler free as I could and I hope y’all enjoyed it.

I am excited to announce that I am going to participate in the Reading Quest read-a-thon! I just heard about this cool event a few days ago and knew that I had to join!

The Reading Quest is hosted by Read at Midnight and it has a unique way of helping you take a good chunk out of your tbr pile. You choose one of the four different character classes and then read the books that fit the themes on the game board that are associated with your character!

The Four different classes are:

~Knight~
~Bard~
~Mage~
~Rogue~

The board also displays interesting side quest themes you can choose from and if you really want a challenge you can try and read all the book themes on the board! Read at Midnight and Read, Think, Ponder did an amazing job creating this challenge and all of the beautiful artwork and I am excited to embark on this journey. If you are curious about this challenge, click the picture of the game board below and it will take you to the challenge’s page!

The Class I chose was Mage! I also decided to find all of the books for my challenge at the local library!

Let’s dive in and see what I will be reading during this read-a-thon! If you are interested in learning about any of the books just click the cover and it will take you to their pages on Goodreads!

The first piece on the mage’s path is: A Book With a One Word Title

I chose Epic by Conor Kostick! I haven’t read this book since high school so it will be interesting to pick it up again for this challenge! The book follows a young man as he tries to earn money and justice for his family by competing in the virtual reality that has dictated the social life of New Earth. The only catch is if you lose in the game you will lose everything you have earned in reality as well.

The next theme on the board is: A Book that Contains Magic

I took a different approach to this theme by picking Lincoln in The Bardo by George Saunders. The way that Saunders approaches the death of young Willie Lincoln is enchanting. The young boy’s soul travels through purgatory while encountering other spirits during the height of the Civil War. To me, this book sounds magical and I can’t wait to read it!

The third theme for the mage to read is: A Book Based on Mythology

When I walked into the library, I saw For The Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser sitting in the middle of a book display. When I picked it up and saw that is focuses on two of the women that were ensnared in the battle of Troy in Homer’s The Iliad. I have an intense love for mythology so when I learned that I could follow the epic battle through the eyes of Krisayis and Briseis I snatched that book off the display and added it to my tbr for this challenge!

The fourth theme I must complete is: A Book Set In A Different World

The world created by Gordon Dahlquist in The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters sounds mysterious and magical. The journey of a woman trying to solve the mystery of her fiancée’s disappearance will also lead into a dark and mysterious world filled with magical mazes and a poetic assassin . I can’t wait to see what is in store when I open this intriguing book.

The final theme that lies in my path is: The First Book of a Series

The book I chose for this theme is I one that I have been wanting to read for quotes some time now! I am excited to dive into the magical world of The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. This book is the beginning of a series that follows a spy organization that is trying to save literary works from different realities. This books sounds like it will be one epic journey and I can’t wait to embark on it!
That is it for my tbr! I can’t wait to start this quest in three days! If y’all decide to also participate, share what class you chose down below!

Today I am going to be sharing some of my favorite literary genres! The genres that have made my top 3 are all genres that I love to both read and write. I know my intro is a tad short but I am a little too excited to write this post!

Let’s dive in and explore my favorite genres!

1. Fantasy

This one is my absolute favorite genre because of how flexible it is. Authors can really go wild with their world building and showcase the coolest stuff. Magic, dragons, and badass journeys are just a few of my favorite things about this genre. Fantasy can also be combined with other genres as well and that is where things can get really interesting~

Favorite things about this genre:

Epic world building~

Use of magic~

Being able to see just how wild an author’s imagination can be~

2. Thriller

I love a good page turner! Books in this category can throw curveballs at you and keep you up at night while you play different scenarios in your head as you try to figure out what’s next. Unreliable narrators rule this genre and some of these books can scare the daylights out of you.

Favorite things about this genre:

The way authors manipulate the point of view and unreliability of the narrative~

Twists are hidden throughout the novel~

Can easily keep you up at night~

3. Classics

Without classical novels, epics, and plays the literary world would not be what it is today. I love reading Austen, Fitzgerald, and Shakespeare. Knowing that storytellers like Homer helped lay the foundation of literature is fascinating and I absolutely adore this genre~

My favorite things about this genre:

The wordplay authors used in order to work in some rather interesting jokes~(Looking at you Shakespeare!)

No matter how many times I read them, I am still enchanted~

Being able to see how society was back then by studying these works is really cool~

Those are my top 3 favorite literary genres! I hope you guys enjoyed my little post! What are your favorite genres?
Have a wonderfully literary day!

August has arrived and I have decided to finally get back into my regular posting schedule on my lovely blog! To kick off the month of August I thought I would share the list of books that are in my to be read (tbr) stack for the month!

Let’s dive in!

Remember: If you want to learn more about any of the books just click the picture and it will take you to the book’s Goodreads page~

The first book on my list is LOSTBOY by Christina Henry!

Peter Pan is my favorite fairy tale so I am excited to dive into this dark novel that focuses on my favorite captain. This novel follows the journey of Captain Hook as he goes from being Pan’s favorite lost boy to his worst enemy. It sounds dark and thrilling and I can’t wait to read it!

The next book on my tbr is The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee!

I recieved this novel in my Owlcrate box this month! This novel focuses on a young noble as he embarks on an adventure across Europe while trying to decipher his budding feelings for his best friend. This novel sounds like it will be fun and I am really excited to read it~

Another book that is on my lovely list is The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden!

This book has been in my tbr pile for a while and now I am going to finally sit down and read it! This story takes place in New Orleans and is filled with, murder, mystery, and magic! I am excited to dive in and follow this magical mystery~

Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody is also on my tbr for August!

This book arrived in my Fairyloot box for July and it sounds intriguing. A girl that can create magical illusions must figure out who is killing her human illusions. This wicked carnival sounds amazing and I am excited to read this novel~

There is one more book on my tbr list that does not have a cover or a Goodreads page. My good friend has asked me to be a beta reader for her novel and I feel honored. The novel is A Touch of Grace by Gretchen Dee! It is a young adult novel that follows two young people brought together through the stables they both visit. I am super excited to read this and give her my feedback!

That is all for my list today! I hope y’all enjoyed my post and hopefully found some interesting new books to check out!
Have a wonderfully literary day!

Today, I received my Wizarding World Crate for July and I thought I would share the epic contents with y’all!

For those of you that don’t know, Loot Crate has a bimonthly box for Harry Potter fans called the Wizarding World Crate. The theme for July was Defense Against the Dark Arts and I am in love with what I received! If you want to learn more about this magical crate click here!

Before I dive into this unboxing I must warn you that there are spoilers beyond this point. If you don’t want to be spoiled then turn back now!

Now, time to dive in to the box!!!

This month’s theme is : Defense Against the Dark Arts

The first thing that I want to share is the exclusive t-shirt that was included in this month’s box. The material is extremely soft and I love the design!

They also included a pocket-sized Dumbledore’s Army themed notebook. This little hardcover notebook is wicked and I can’t wait to scribble ideas in it. I also loved the little bonus roster that is on the inside of the front cover.

I was surprised by the beautiful pen that looks like Snape’s wand. The details on this pen are gorgeous and it writes extremely well!

This is my favorite item from this month’s box. I can now have the guardians of Hogwarts guard my bookshelves with these metal bookends. The detailing and quality of these bookends are incredible and I will proudly display these in my growing Harry Potter section of my bookshelves.

The pin that was included in this month’s box is one of Voldemort’s horcruxes! It is cool that I now own both the ring and the diary in pin form and I hope they keep up the horcrux theme with the pins.

A little bonus that was included in this box is that the box itself folded into a pretty patronus shadow box!

I hoped y’all enjoyed this magical unboxing! This is probably one of my favorite boxes I have received from the Wizarding World Crate and I can’t wait for September to come around so I can receive my next box.

Today I am going to share a list of some of my favorite fairytale retellings! I noticed while creating this list that I love the darker retellings due to my love for the original fairytales. There is only one book on this list that is not too dark while the other three have a darker theme to them. I hope you enjoy my post!

Okay (cracks knuckles) let’s kick off this list! If you want to learn more about a particular book, click the book’s photo and it will take you to the book’s Goodreads page!

The first book that I will be talking about is Bound by Donna Jo Napoli!

I love Donna Jo Napoli’s retellings so much but Bound is my favorite! She uses Chinese mythology as a tool to reinvent the story of Cinderella. Instead of a glass or golden slipper there is a silk slipper that only a woman with incredibly small feet can fit into. The history of feet binding and the painful toll it took on women during that time period plays an important role in this story as well. If you want a new cultural take on this classic then you should pick up this beautiful book

The next book on my little list is Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright!

This novel is a reimagined version of the story of little red riding hood and it is incredible while also being filled to the brim with twists and turns. This page turner will keep you guessing the true identity of the menacing wolf until the very last page. The characters and the plot curveballs come together to create a truly spellbinding story~

Another one of my favorites is The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor!

This is my absolute favorite retelling of Alice in Wonderland. This is a cool retelling where instead of falling into wonderland, our little hero is the heir to the throne and is having to fight against her evil aunt to regain power over wonderland. This book is amazing and the mad hatter is quite the interesting character with his dangerous top hat~

And the final book on my list is Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige!

This book is AMAZING and I can’t believe the journey that I just went on when I picked up this Wizard of Oz retelling. This book follows a young girl as she is brought to Oz so that she can kill Dorothy, who has been ruling ruthlessly in her sparkling red shoes. You also encounter a mad scientist Scarecrow, a Tin Man that is a slave to his heart, and a Cowardly Lion that feeds on fear. This is one tale that you need to read now!

Okay, that is my list of my favorite retellings! These are all books that I love and I hope that y’all enjoy them as much as I do!
Happy Reading,

Now that all the post-graduation chaos has finally settled I can dedicate more time to my lovely blog! I want to share more of my bookish love on here so expect to see a ridiculous amount of book mail being unboxed on here along with tbr lists, wrap ups, and other cool book posts! My first bookish related post is the unboxing of my Fairyloot that arrived Friday. For those of you that don’t know, Fairyloot is a monthly book subscription box that ships from the U.K. and focuses on the fantasy side of the Y.A. Genre. The theme for May was Warriors and Legends and I am excited to show y’all what came in it!

Note: I tried to provide links to as many of the businesses as I could so if you want to learn more about them, you can click and go to their website. The books are linked to their Goodreads pages so all you have to do is click the links to find out more about the books! The only Goodreads page I could not find was for the mythology book~

SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU ARE A FAIRYLOOT SUBSCRIBER AND DON’T WANT TO BE SPOILED THEN TURN BACK NOW.

Now that I got that out of the way, lets dive in!

~The first thing you see when opening this box is a little newsletter along with a pretty print that fits the theme of the month. I love their purple packing confetti so much that I keep a box full of it for when I want to use it for photos~

~This beautiful edition of World Mythology In Bite Sized Chunks by Mark Daniels is so freaking beautiful! Little snippets from various mythologies are showcased in this book! It is only 200 pages so it is a quick read and I can’t wait to display this beauty along with my other mythology books~

~This lovely fake feather pen, made by Flora’s Wonder Emporium, is a very interesting shade of orange. It writes really well, the only problem is that it is stiff and sharp~

~I also received a cool tea blend created by The Tea Leaf Co that was created just for the Warriors and Legends box! I haven’t tried it yet but it smells amazing. In The Wick of Time also created an exclusive candle that smells like orange blossom and it is divine~

~ I was beyond excited when I saw the Celtic socks that were created just for the box. My current writing project involves a bit of Celtic mythology so these socks made me giggle a bit too hard.

~I have been been wanting an Ink and Wonder bookmark so I was extremely happy to see that the one I received in this box was Lord of The Rings themed! They also included an excerpt from a very interesting novel that is out now called, Naondel, by Maria Turtschaninoff!

And finally we have reached the book that was chosen for this month!

Drumroll Please!

The book chosen for Fairyloot’s Warriors and Legends box is Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh! I have been anxiously awaiting this beauty to come out and I can’t wait to read it! They also sent a letter written by her, a signed nameplate, and a cute little bookmark.

Here is a picture of the inside of the jacket for you if you are intrigued:

Overall I really enjoyed this box! They have never sent me a box that I did not enjoy and I love subscribing to their box.

If any of y’all are interested in learning more about this lovely subscription box then click here!

I hope y’all enjoyed this little unboxing post and I hope y’all have an amazing day!